Crime at Bedtime

Hello legends, Jack here, host of Crime at Bedtime. I'm currently travelling to the US because my other show, One Minute Remaining, was lucky enough to be nominated for an award. I’ll be back very soon, but while I’m away, I’m diving into the vault to bring you some of my favourite and most terrifying Crime at Bedtime stories from the past three years.

We’re going to kick off with quite possibly one of the most bizarre missing persons cases you’ll come across. A young man by the name of Larz Mitankov arrived at an airport one day and was seen on CCTV entering the terminal before, moments later, running back out of the airport and vanishing.

At one stage, Larz became one of the most famous missing persons cases in the world as the story circulated across YouTube. Larz has never been found...
This is his story.

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Lars Joachim Mittank is a German man who disappeared on 8 July 2014, near Varna Airport in Varna, Bulgaria. Mittank was vacationing at the Golden Sands resort, where he was supposedly involved in a fight, and was subsequently unable to fly home with his friends for health reasons.

Mittank was documented acting strangely while alone in Bulgaria. He called home to his mother claiming that people were trying to kill him. On the day when he was supposed to fly home, Mittank went to the Varna Airport to consult with a doctor.

He was later seen on airport security footage running out of the airport and towards an adjacent forest. He has never been seen since. The case has generated intense interest, and the frequency with which people viewed the footage of him fleeing the airport has led to him being named, the most famous missing person on YouTube.

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On 29 September 2017, retired Royal Navy veteran and cancer survivor Tony Parsons set out on a 104-mile charity bike ride through the Scottish Highlands. He stopped at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel for a coffee just before midnight, then cycled into the darkness. He was never seen alive again. For more than three years, Tony's family searched for answers as the case grew cold. Then in 2020, a Glasgow pathologist named Caroline Muirhead became engaged to a charming Highland gamekeeper, only for him to confess a devastating secret on a quiet country road. What she did next would expose one of Scotland's most haunting hit and run cover-ups, lead to the discovery of Tony's body marked by a crushed Red Bull can, and reveal the terrifying truth that he had been left alive on the roadside to die alone.
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In June 2025, a 19 year old woman in Lyon, France, was placed into a medically induced coma. For the next three weeks, she lay still in a hospital bed, kept alive by machines while her body healed. But inside her mind, something extraordinary was happening. Clélia Verdier was falling in love. She was getting married. She was giving birth to triplets she named Mila, Maïlée, and Miles. She was burying the little boy who died shortly after birth. She was watching her two daughters grow from babies into seven year old girls with distinct personalities and bedtime stories and walks in the park. When Clélia finally opened her eyes, the first thing she did was ask the nurses where her children were. And when her parents arrived, she told them they were grandparents. What happens to a woman who lives an entire life inside her own mind. Who grieves children no one else can remember. And who has to find a way back to a reality that no longer feels real.
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On the evening of 3 January 2014, a 39 year old woman was found in bushland at West Hoxton in Sydney's south west. Her skin was peeling from her body. She had suffered horrific burns to over 80 per cent of her face and torso. Doctors would later determine she had been doused in nearly eight litres of hydrochloric acid up to ten days before being discovered. Her name was Monika Chetty. A former nurse. A mother of three. A homeless woman who had been sleeping rough in Sydney's streets for years, estranged from her family and trapped in a world of gambling debts and dangerous associations. Before she died at Concord Hospital 28 days later, she gave police a story about her attack. But detectives believed she was lying to protect someone. Twelve years on, despite a $500,000 reward and an exhaustive coronial inquest, no one has ever been charged. Someone in Sydney knows what happened to Monika Chetty.
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On 24 November 1971, a quiet man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, collected $200,000 in cash and four parachutes… then stepped out of a Boeing 727 into the night over the Pacific Northwest. In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we walk calmly through the hijacking, the strange decisions Cooper made, the ransom money found in 1980, and the 2016 FBI decision to suspend the case.
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